By David Crystal

New from Cambridge University Press!

By Peter Mark Roget

This book "supplies a vocabulary of English words and idiomatic phrases 'arranged … according to the ideas which they express'. The thesaurus, continually expanded and updated, has always remained in print, but this reissued first edition shows the impressive breadth of Roget's own knowledge and interests."

The only comprehensive survey of research on formulaic language and L2speech and the teaching implications of the link between them.

This volume presents a comprehensive look at the phenomenon of formulaiclanguage (multi-word units believed to be mentally stored and retrieved assingle units) and its role in fluent speech production. Focusing on secondlanguage speech, the book provides an overview of research into the role offormulaic language in fluency, details a study which provides evidence ofthat role, and outlines teaching plans and strategies to foster it. Thisimportant area has not been examined in such depth and scope before, andthis work has many implications for future research and language pedagogy. It will appeal to researchers in discourse analysis and second languageacquisition.

"Formulaic Language and Second Language Speech Fluency is a comprehensiveand highly readable exploration of formulaic language and its relationshipto fluency in second language speech production. The volume is organizedinto three parts that provide readers with relevant background literatureon formulaic language in fluency, details of a study designed to explorethe role of formulaic language in fluency, and classroom strategies topromote fluency through formulaic language. This timely volume on apreviously largely unexplored topic offers scope and depth that will appealto researchers and students in second language acquisition as well as areasof Applied Linguistics; it should also be required reading for all secondlanguage teachers" H.M. McGarrell, PhD, Professor of Applied Linguistics, Brock University, Canada